Between 2000-2003 Romania made significant legislative progress concerning women's human rights. The government has adopted new laws regarding domestic violence and trafficking, as well as a National Plan on Trafficking in Women and Children.

In May 2003, the Romanian government adopted a new law on domestic violence. Domestic violence is defined as a deliberate physical or verbal act by one family member against another family member, which results in physical, mental or sexual suffering, or material loss (Article 2(1). Article 2(2) also states that encroaching on women's fundamental rights and freedoms constitutes domestic violence.

As a part of the E.U. integration process, Romania also adopted a law on Equal Opportunities and Treatment for Women and Men. According to Seeline-Project (Definitions of Discrimination), the new law defines direct discrimination as "the disfavored difference in treatment of a person, due to his/her belonging to a gender or pregnancy, birth, maternity or granting the maternity leave" and indirect discrimination as " the applying of provisions, criteria or practices, apparently neutral, which through the effects it generated affects persons of a certain gender, except in the situation when the applying of these provisions, criteria or practices can be justified with objective factors without gender connection." It also establishes the principle of equal remuneration for work of equal value and makes sexual harassment a punishable offence in the Criminal Code.

Romanian legislation deals with discimination in the workplace in its Constitution, its Labor Code, and certain ordinances, laws and decisions.  See article below, written and provided by Adela Dinu.